Wednesday, November 5, 2008

WHY ATLANTIS WAS NEVER FOUND!

Do you ever wonder what this myth about Atlantis is? Don’t you ever want to, at least, find out if it ever existed? If it did then, where was it? If it didn’t exist how come we do know so “much” about it?!

My Name is A S. Nika and I am a Computer Scientist specializing in theoreticalComputer Science as well as Reverse linguistics from CUNY New York. I am fluent in Ancient Greek(there is no such a thing as an Expert in A.G.), a helpful tool in order for me to better understand one of the greatest Philosophers, and apparently writers, of Western/Ancient era, PLATO!Many legends and myths have captured the imagination of humanity but one of them hastotally “Exploited” it; the legend of Atlantis. According to Professor Feder of the Connecticut University, you can't even use the word Atlantis in a sentence unless you can say you've read Plato.

No mater what historians say we all know that you can’t talk about Atlantis withoutmentioning the work of Plato; TIMAEUS and CRITIAS, the only credible reference, andunfortunately the only one, which describes Atlantis into such details.

But first, we have to examine the ground on which this work was prepared. So, let’s see who Plato was, the period that he lived in, as well as the “mentality” of the people that surrounded him.

We all know about the Golden age of ancient Greece. We don’t have to know the exacttime. Let’s say roughly 600-100 B.C, so few centuries before the birth of Jesus. Manyphilosophers lived at this time in the capital of Hellenic state, the democratic society of Athens.

Three of them were the founders of Western philosophy; Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.Socrates, known for his enlightenment of truth through his dialogs, was the inspiration of many works of Plato. From all 36 dialogs that he wrote, Socrates is the main “Star”.

Nevertheless, we don’t care about 35 of them but one; Timaeus and Critias, and in particular the reference about Atlantis. I will try to make it easy for the simple reader by not using high and sophisticated words;The year is more or less 360 B.C. Socrates has gathered some of his students around him. Plato, Critias, Timaeus and Hermocrates. The topic of discussion; describe a Perfect Society.

We do have to understand at this point that we’re talking about Socrates, a philosopher that all his life talked about truth. He was fascinated by the truth. It’s the golden age of observation. One has not to forget the definition of a philosopher; a philosopher is someone dedicated to studying and producing results in philosophy. The word "philosopher," literally, means "lover of wisdom.” Plato is Socrates best student. How can he imagine things? Don’t forget that Plato uses dialogs which are nothing more than the Socratic methodology for finding the truth. The best methodology to date! It is used today in courts and is called crossexamination.